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WILKES-BARRE — Two people were shot in the head by a gunman who burst into an Iron Triangle-area home and opened fire late Wednesday, according to city police.

Police say Trevor Oliver, 41, and Vanessa Batista, 39, were shot in Batista’s home at 77 Hutson St. shortly before midnight.

Reached Thursday, Oliver’s mother Darnella Randolph said her son remained hospitalized in dire condition.

“He’s heavily sedated. Where he got shot at, there’s no recovering from,” Randolph said from her front porch, staring a few doors down to her son’s home, which had become a crime scene. “I’m just numb right now. I’m numb.”

According to a search warrant application filed in court, police were dispatched to Hutson Street to a report of a gunshot victim. Officers arrived and found Batista at 67 Hutson St., suffering from a gunshot to her head and wrist, police said.

Batista told police she had been at home when someone knocked on the front door and then entered, according to the warrant. The gunman came in and opened fire, striking Batista, police said.

Batista reported that Oliver, her boyfriend, had also been shot. Officers found Oliver lying on the kitchen floor of 77 Hutston St. with a gunshot wound to the head, according to the warrant.

Randolph said she learned something wasn’t right when someone came pounding on her front door. She woke up and went downstairs, but nobody was there, she said.

When she returned upstairs, she heard more banging an again ran down to find no one there, she said. Then Batista’s sister returned to her house a few more doors down Hutson Street and encountered Batista, said Randolph, who was alerted to the discovery by the sound of screaming and crying.

She said Batista’s daughter had been upstairs at the home during the shooting but had not been harmed.

“I don’t think he knew she was upstairs,” she said.

After being discovered near her sister’s house, Batista was able to identify the shooter, Randolph said.

“She was alert at the time, talking,” Randolph said. “She did tell the police who the person was.”

Randolph said the person was a friend of her son’s, and that she had no idea why the person would have attacked them.

According to police, both victims were taken to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Twp. to be treated for their injuries.

Batista’s condition was not known Thursday. Randolph said Batista had been taken to Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, but a spokeswoman there said Batista was not listed as a patient.

Investigators sought the search warrant to gather evidence from the home after responding officers observed blood and bullet holes inside. The application says there was blood in the front room near a couch and in the kitchen and dining room. A blood trail also went upstairs into several bedrooms, according to police.

Police discovered two bullet holes in the dining room wall, and saw several cellphones laying in the front room near a large pool of blood, the application says.

City police say their detectives are being assisted in the investigation by a state police forensic services unit and the Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office.

No charges had been filed as of Thursday afternoon.

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